Example sentences of "it [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It drains down to the moat , ’ Sir Brian mumbled . |
| 2 | He raises it over his head and brings it crashing down on the back of the man 's head ; once , twice , three times . |
| 3 | And when it goes down to a water hole to drink it crouches down and awkwardly sips with its mouth . |
| 4 | It goes down to the throat with redness and swelling , enlarged tonsils , hot head , congested face , heavy limbs , a gradual onset . |
| 5 | Local legend states that when it hears the church clock strike twelve it goes down to the River Avon to drink . |
| 6 | And get the letter all brailled and everything so it goes down to the |
| 7 | we 've got , is at the back of the house right , and then it goes up there , then that is the houses and it goes down to the sewer in the road , so er |
| 8 | You can see there 's been a wee bit of damage to that ligament just where it goes down over the top of that bone . |
| 9 | The philosophy that if it goes down in the US it must be going up in Europe has meant that Smurfit is looking to Europe as its main engine for growth in the months to come , when it must decide how to spend the $1bn cash raised from the recent financial restructuring with Morgan Stanley . |
| 10 | Though her hair was not quite dry Franca began to plait it very fast , letting a long thick plait materialise between her nimble hands , then tossing it over her shoulder and letting it hang down over the back of the chair . |
| 11 | Nor does it have much of a view , since it looks down into the stable . |
| 12 | Rather it looks down at the scarred and broken Christ figure as if to say , ‘ Why ? |
| 13 | At the top the beetles have discovered the dead mouse ; they bury it by tunnelling beneath it and removing the earth from below so that it drops down into the excavation ; at the bottom as the mouse sinks down into the earth the beetles roll it into a ball ready for the reception of their eggs . |
| 14 | Jen grabs for the bottle and it drops down on the grass and rolls away , glug , gurgle . |
| 15 | Mortars are shorter , heavier weapons than cannons , designed to lob an explosive shell high into the air so that it drops down on the target from the sky . |
| 16 | but it rolls along the gutter and it drops down through the grating of a drain . |
| 17 | Having got to the top , it flutters down to the base of another tree and starts all over again . |
| 18 | A silver and tawny tree creeper spiralled up a tree trunk , probing for beetle larvae with its long thin bill ; it dropped down to the roots of the next tree — and edged its way up once more . |
| 19 | The river was called Rush River , because of the speed with which it roared down from the Blue Mountains , scoring a twisted gorge through the forest . |
| 20 | This cobbled route is still a joy to follow ; the top half of it , as it curves down to the church and the river , lined with sober houses built from the local cocoa-coloured stone and dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries — datable precisely in some cases from the inscribed lintel stones ; then the church , seventeenth-century and disappointingly dull ; the old bridge over the Nive , which is the place to look up — and downstream , at the houses built along the banks with their projecting wooden galleries ; and then on towards the Porte d'Espagne , past the shops and more very decent old houses . |
| 21 | ‘ Given that I was one of them it came down to a choice between Gower and Gatting . |
| 22 | ‘ It came down to a willingness to pay for it . ’ |
| 23 | Because when it came down to the work bit |
| 24 | Inevitably it came down to the same couple of answers — her mortgage , her job . |
| 25 | It came down like an oily green avalanche , piling up into a mountain of folds , but no one bothered about it because the sun shone through the dusty , cobwebbed windows and made Jekub glow . |
| 26 | It came down against the crash barrier . |
| 27 | It 's open grass with not much cover and it slopes down to the pond and the stream which bisect the two parts of the battle area . ’ |
| 28 | The barking was getting closer by the second and we could hear the hunters whistling and shouting orders to the dogs , and the sound of the boar scrunching dried leaves and snapping dead branches as it hurtled down through the trees . |
| 29 | Yes it did it run down to the river and we used to have to write to get a permit to camp on there for the week but then there used to be an old , the old foreman of he used to come round every Saturday night , have you got your permit ? |
| 30 | Oh there was a tremendous variety , but then there were all the same in , erm you look at the er the three light fitting er it hangs down from the ceiling and has three branches out from it and it either has three lights hanging down or three hanging upwards , er with four ordinary bulbs in or candle bulbs in and shades , sometimes they have four , erm , there 's still an awful lot of those about and any lighting shop you look in you 'll still see plenty of those er and yet they 've got a tremendous number of disadvantages , one thing , a lot of them got glass shades , if you break one shade three year 's time you might as well throw away the fitting because you ca n't get another one er , and erm it 's a design that does n't , it does n't lend itself to giving a good lighting in a room at all er , it they , they harsh glassware , the edges of the glass during all round the room and that sort of thing |